Utjecaj terorizma na ulogu i djelovanje medija
Impact of Terrorism on the Media's Role and Activity

Summary/Abstract: In the wake of 11 September 2001 not only the scope and the goals of terrorism drastically expanded but also the circle of social groups and institutions it encroaches upon. The essence of the “classical” terrorism is aptly summarized by the old Chinese adage: “kill one, scare hundreds”. The attack on the WTC altered these numbers not only for that attack but also for most terrorist attacks all over the world, so this aphorism might now run: “kill thousands, scare billions”. If the classical terrorism was a sort of a “trio” whose participants were “terrorists + their victims + power”, contemporary terrorism increasingly takes the form of a “quartet”: “terrorists + their victims + power + mass media”.

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